iwi kuamoʻo

• iwikuamoʻo

By surface analysis, iwi (“bone”) +‎ kuamoʻo (“backbone”), though compare Niuean ivitua (“backbone”), Tahitian ivi tua (“backbone”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.wi ku.aˈmo.ʔo/, [ˈi.ʋi ku.wəˈmo.ʔo]

iwi kuamoʻo

1. backbone, spine, vertebrate

   Alternative form: kuamoʻo

   holoholona iwi kuamoʻo

   vertebrate animal

   paukū iwi o ka iwi kuamoʻo

   vertebra

   (literally, “section of the backbone”)

2. lineage, genealogy

• ʻanuʻu (“disjointed vertebra”)

• Paul Nahoa Lucas, editor, compiled by Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation and University of Hawaiʻi Committee for the Preservation and Study of Hawaiian Language, Art, and Culture (1995), A Dictionary of Hawaiian Legal-Land Terms‎^[1], Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN
• Hawaiian Language Committee, compilers (2003), Māmaka Kaiao: A Modern Hawaiian Vocabulary‎^[2], Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press